God couldn`t be everywhere all the time, so he created moms. But before all this, he created life through pregnancy! Being such an important subject, this couldn`t have been absent from the world`s literature, memoirs of important people from various fields, celebrities of literature, politics, cinema and so on.
Here you have a collection of some of the most and beautiful and interesting 101 pregnancy quotes there are today about the miracle of birth, about what it means to be a mother and to carry inside a new life for 9 months.
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101 Quotes about Pregnancy
1. “I love it. It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.” – Angelina Jolie
2. “A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.” – Mary Mason
3. “A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, a home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for.” – Unknown
4. “Making the decision to have a child – it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” – Elizabeth Stone
5. “A baby fills a place in your heart you never knew was empty.” – Unknown
6. “Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin.” – Maggie Scarf
7. “Before you were born I carried you under my heart. From the moment you arrived in this world until the moment I leave it, I will always carry you in my heart.” – Mandy Harrison
8. “Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of Mother’s Love.” – Maureen Hawkins – Learn more!
9. “A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside… when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.” – Unknown
10. “It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.” – Beyonce
11. “You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can’t possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.” – Pink
12. “If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away 9 months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.” – Erma Bombeck
13. “Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life.” – Judy Ford
14. “Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid.” – Arabic Proverb
15. “In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She’s got a construction zone going on in her belly.” – Al Roker
16. “People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death. I think they just tell pregnant women they’re glowing to make them feel good about themselves.” – Jessica Simpson
17. “Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.” – Harriette Hartigan
18. “Motherhood: the only place you can experience heaven and hell at the same time!” – Unknown
19. “Some men are so macho they’ll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.” – Maureen Murphy – Click here!
20. “The only time a women wishes she was a year older is when she’s expecting a baby.” – Mary Marsh
21. “I’m never as happy as when I’m pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!” – Tori Spelling
22. “Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about what I looked like in public or what people thought of me. I care at least 40 percent less now.” – Busy Philipps
23. “A house without a child is like a tomb.” – Sanskrit Proverb
24. “The laughter of a child is the light of a house.” – African Proverb
25. “All natural birth has a purpose and a plan; who would think of tearing open the chrysalis as the butterfly is emerging? Who would break the shell to pull the chick out?” ~ Marie F. Mongan
26. “Birth matters. It brings us into being, on many levels.” – Ananda Lowe
27. “I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I mean, I just can’t believe it. It’s like a whole new dimension in emotion that I’ve never experienced.” – Gwyneth Paltrow
28. “Let me let you in on a little secret, your cervix is not a crystal ball. It cannot predict when you will start labor. It cannot predict if you will deliver before, after or even on your due date. The cervix can do many wonderful things, but let’s not give the cervix more credit than it is due. A cervix cannot read the future.” – Maria Pokluda
29. “The whole point of woman-centered birth is the knowledge that a woman is the birth power source. She may need, and deserve, help, but in essence, she always had, currently has, and will have the power.” – Heather McCue – Click for more!
30. “The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.” – Nancy Gibbs
31. “Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.” – George Bernard Shaw
32. “With a child in the house, all corners all full.” – Yiddish Proverb
33. “Sometimes I stand there going, ‘I’m not doing any of this right!’ And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, ‘Ah, we accomplished this together.” – Christina Applegate
34. “Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.” – Irish Proverbs
35. “Birth takes a woman’s deepest fears about herself and show her that she is stronger than them.” – Unknown
36. “If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.” – Nora Ephron
37. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.”– Catherine Jones
38. “Many kiss the child for the nurse’s sake.” – Danish Proverb
39. “I can’t help but be a different person now that I’ve had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better.” – Jennifer Lopez
40. “Now my belly is as noble as my heart.” – Gabriela Mistral
41. “Children need love| especially when they do not deserve it.” – Harold Hulbert
42. “In the moments of labor and birth, all the forces of the universe are flowing through a woman’s body.” – Sandra K. MorningStar – Visit this link!
43. “Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.” – Mariah Carey
44. “With seven nurses the child loses its eye.” – Russian Proverb
45. “There is a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” – Laura Stavoe Harm
46. “If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.” – Jane Fonda
47. “The moment a child is born, a mother is also born, as she never existed before.” – Osho
48. “The effort to separate the physical experience of childbirth from the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of this event has served to disempower and violate women.” – Mary Rucklos Hampton
49. “Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.”– Robert Anton Wilson
50. “Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.” – Joyce Armor
51. “Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers–strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.” – Barbara Katz Rothman
52. “The power and intensity of your contractions cannot be stronger than you, because it is you.” – Unknown
53. “Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.” – Madisen Beaty
54. “No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception.” – Grantley Dick-Read, M.D.
55. “If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That’s not called capitalism, that’s called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.” – Michael Moore
56. “Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.” ~ Holly Madison
57. “Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies.” – Merete Leonhardt
58. “The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.” – Stephen Gaskin
59. “It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.” – H. L. Mencken
60. “The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama’s Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self – with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.” – Christine Pelosi
61. “If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.” – Taylor Swift
62. “There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.” – Honore de Balzac
63. “Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.” – Mao Zedong
64. “There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don’t ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it.” – Sheryl Feldman – Click this web page!
65. “If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.” – Michel Odent, MD
66. “The way a woman gives birth can affect the whole of the rest of her life. How can that not matter? Unless the woman herself does not matter.” – Beverley Beech and Belinda Phipps
67. “I’m destiny’s child. I wasn’t meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she was pregnant, and then she fell down the stairs in her eighth month of pregnancy. She nearly died; I believe I came into this world for a reason.” – Shilpa Shetty
68. “When I say painless, please understand, I don’t mean you will not feel anything. What you will feel is a lot of pressure; you will feel the might of creation move through you. Pain, however, is associated with something gone wrong. Childbirth is a lot of hard work, and the sensations that accompany it are very strong, but there is nothing wrong with labor.” – Giuditta Tornetta
69. “When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.” – Karen Horney
70. “Part of birthing without fear is trusting your instincts.” – Brande Holm
71. “The knowledge of how to give birth without outside interventions lies deep within each woman. Successful childbirth depends on an acceptance of the process.” – Unknown
72. “There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” – Pamela S. Nadav
73. “When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.” – Nate Mendel
74. “Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.” – Carrie Fisher
75. “Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.” – Elisabeth Hasselbeck
76. “No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you`re the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside.” – Kristen Proby
77. “Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born, so by the time they put in an appearance you are used to giving things up for them.” ― Brett Kiellerop
78. “Labor is the only blind date where you know you will meet the love of your life.”– Unknown
79. “When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs–in the service of birthing women, not their master.” – Christiane Northrup
80. “Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.” – Nikki Dalton
81. “The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don’t know why it’s just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it’s not happening just in the morning for my sister.” – Tia Mowry – Visit this link!
82. “The butterflies he used to give me turned into little feet.” – Unknown
83. “When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.” ― Suzanne Finnamore
84. “Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it’s forever-changing, both mentally and physically.” – Brooke Burke
85. “You do a lot of growing up when you’re pregnant. It’s suddenly like, “Yikes. Here it is, folks. Playtime is over.” – Connie Fioretto
86. “Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.” – Robin Lim
87. “Giving birth is not a matter of pushing, expelling the baby, but of yielding, surrendering to birth energy.” – Marie Reid
88. “It’s an established fact. Some women can’t stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it.” – Rich Cohen
89. “I think one of the best things we could do would be to help women/parents/families discover their own birth power, from within themselves. And to let them know it’s always been there, they just needed to tap into it.”– John H. Kennell, MD
90. “You are pregnant and you are powerful. You are bold and you are beautiful. Go forward in your boldness, in your beauty and in your connectedness. Trust your body to birth and know that the collective power of women worldwide will be with you.” – Unknown
91. “Just as a woman’s heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth.” – Virginia Di Orio
92. “Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.” – Jane Fraser
93. “A strong intention, a relaxed body and an open mind are the main ingredients for an active birth.” – Janet Balaskas
94. “All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming, growing, turning, floating, swimming deep, deep inside?” – Crescent Dragonwagon
95. “I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a know which I do not wish to unite.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
96. “The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill
97. “You are going to feel like at some point you cannot do it. That is when your baby is coming.” – Unknown
98. “Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinos, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.” – Ina May Gaskin
99. “I don’t particularly like being pregnant. I like the baby at the end. Pregnancy is a very distant thing for me. I can’t seem to believe there’s really a baby there. It’s such a miracle.” – Mary Beth Whitehead
100. “Birth is an opportunity to transcend. To rise above what we are accustomed to, reach deeper inside ourselves than we are familiar with, and to see not only what we are truly made of, but the strength we can access in and through birth.” – Marcie Macari
101. “Women today not only possess genetic memory of birth from a thousand generations of women, but they are also assailed from every direction by information and misinformation about birth.” – Valerie El Halta
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